many presents introduced, painful measures nonetheless to be arbitrated | EUROtoday

Sébastien Lecornu reserved the simplest half for himself. Sharp enhance within the exercise bonus, freezing of earnings tax, generalization of the coed meal at 1 euro… On the steps of Matignon, the Prime Minister listed, Friday January 16, the measures favorable to 1 or the opposite which he agreed to combine into the draft finances for 2026 within the hope of avoiding censorship. If not presents, at the least concessions granted, some to the socialists, others to the members of the federal government coalition. More spending, much less taxes, for a complete not formally quantified, however definitely larger than 7 billion euros, in line with estimates from the World.

The head of presidency stated nearly nothing, nonetheless, concerning the extra painful measures which can quickly accompany these sweets. Because, ultimately, Sébastien Lecornu reaffirmed it: the general public deficit, estimated at 5.4% of gross home product (GDP) in 2025, should fall in 2026. Not as a lot as initially deliberate (4.7%), however somewhat all the identical, to be restricted to five% of GDP – and “maybe less” in case of a very good shock on progress.

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